Last week I suggested silence as a good option. In that case your body is your only instrument along with presence which incidentally transcends the body. Presence involves a solid and clear connection with the pulse. Silence, however, is not your only option. You can add singing to the body and presence.
This can be quite magical and surprising. You are not singing songs you know. You are making up songs. You are improvising words and tunes and emotions and feelings and phrasing and pauses and they do not have to be in any particular genre. They don't have to make sense. They have to emerge quite effortlessly and when the words and tunes do come from your pulse they are just right. They are perfect! You feel the thrill of connecting to the pulse when you sing without knowing from moment to moment what is going to come out of your mouth and in what form, what tune, what phrasing!
Exercise: Set timer for a minute. Enter your performance space (remember the two books from last week?) feeling your body connect with your pulse and start singing and moving through space as you are moved to. You may have a friend watch and then take turns doing this for each other.
May the pulse be with you!
Abhay
Image: The amazing Shelley Duvall's singing in Robert Altman's Popeye is improv singing at its best. Image from Slant Magazine.
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